Industrial Design in Vietnam

1. novel industrial design - An industrial design shall be deemed to be new if it significantly differs from other industrial designs which have been publicly disclosed by use or by means of written descriptions or in any other form either inside or outside Vietnam prior to the filing date or the priority date, as applicable, of the application for registration of the industrial design.

Filing the Vietnam Industrial design application is carried out as following:

The applicant may divide,on his/her own initiative or upon the request of the NOIP,his/her application (division and transfer of one or several technical solutions in an invention registration application[...]

1. General provisions on renewal of validity of protection titles Industrial design patents shall have a validity starting from the grant date and expiring at the end of 5 years after the filing date and may be renewed for two consecutive terms, each of 5 years. Request for renewal of...

An application for a Industrial design registration filed with the NOIP shall be subject to formality examination for evaluating its validity[...]

Under Vietnam IP Law, Industrial design means the outward appearance of a product embodied in three dimensional configuration, lines, colours or a combination of such elements

SBLAW would like to introduce some information about industrial Design Renew in Vietnam as follows:

In order to reach the Industrial design registration certificate, the applicants have to fulfill the whole examination procedure consists of following steps[...]

Use of an industrial design is regulated by Vietnam IP law as follows:

Question:  I would like to register some furniture designs in Vietnam. Please an example of the paper work of my designs (4 pages with technical drawing). Could you advise the cost per designs and time scale to register such designs in Vietnam? Thank you Answer:  Regarding your enquiry concerning the subject matter,...

SBLAW is honored to act as the intellectual property representative for VITACO Import-Export Co., Ltd., assisting in the successful registration and protection of the industrial design for its fish sauce product label. Filed under application No. 3-2023-02525 with the Intellectual Property Office of Vietnam on October 26, 2023, the design...

Documents identifying an industrial design registered for protection in an industrial design registration application include a description and a set of photos or drawings of such industrial design[...]

Where an applicant for registration of an industrial design knows that such industrial design is being used by another person without prior use right for commercial purposes[...]

On the date of expiration of the time limit for substantive examination of an application at the latest,the NOIP shall send to the applicant one of the following notices[...]

In order to register your industrial design in Vietnam, We would like the Power of Attorney (POA) from your firm[...]